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MCAT AAMC EXAM STUDY GUIDEPressure (fluid) - Answers- pgh
density x g x change in height
Nearsighted (myopic) - Answers- Diverging lens; image is focused in front of retina
Farsighted (hyperopia) - Answers- Converging lens; image is focused beyond the retina
Index - Answers- Speed of air (Vair) / Speed of medium (Vmedium)
Ratio of h(image) to h(object) - Answers- f of image/ f of object
Ratio of O/I distance = Ratio of O/I height
Mass of O/mass of submerged - Answers- density of O/ density of fluid
Mass of O = 15, Mass of fluid loss = 5
15/5 = 3 = ratio of density of O/density of fluid
density of fluid = 0.7 -> density of O = 0.7 x 3 = 2.1
Hydrostatic pressure - Answers- The pressure at the bottom of a tube of height h filled
with liquid of density = pgh due to the weight of the liquid.
Speed of a WAVE - Answers- v=f(lamda)
Unknown O = 31.6N
Apparent weight = 19.8N
specific gravity of sample? - Answers- Unknown O force / Liquid displaced force
32N / (32N-20N) = 32/12 = 8/3 = 2.66
Apoptosis - Answers- Cytochrome C release from MT
Cell shrinkage and blebbing
Caspase activation
Specific activity of a protein - Answers- Measure of the enzyme units per mg of total
protein in a solution
Provides a measure of the purity of an enzymatic mixture
Disruption of 2 S-S bond - Answers- 2 molecules of NADH (reducing agent)
Sociological concept of Medicalization - Answers- A problem becomes described in
medical terminology and treated by medical professions
, Behavior problem (alcoholism) becomes described and treated as a medical condition
when it was not previously conceived in that way
Social stigma - Answers- an attribute that is devalued
Social epidemiology - Answers- The social determinants of health and disease
Dramaturgical approach to social interaction - Answers- An individual will modify his or
her front stage self in response to the perceived audience
Dramaturgical approach - Answers- Front stage self
back stage self
Impression management
Communication
Validity - Answers- to the extent to which a measure reflects the phenomenon being
studied
Derived from symbolic interactionist perspective in sociology and calls attention to how
certain individuals or groups face social disapproval. Often, the social disapproval is
associated with a behavior, identity, or other attribute that is considered deviant by
others
Looking-glass self - Answers- Self concept as a product of social interaction, emerging
out of the way an individuals perceives others to view him or her
More than the product of self-reflection
The way in which people see themselves is based on how they believe others perceive
them during social interaction
Role strain - Answers- Stress experienced from contradictory demands of the same
social role
Ex) physician
demand of extending life with interventions while accepting the reality of death
Ethnographic research - Answers- Observing social interactions in real social setting
Actor-observer bias - Answers- Actor's tendency to explain his/her own behavior by
situational factors whereas the observer tends to explain the actor's behavior by internal
stable traits
Diathesis-stress model - Answers- Integrate the influence of biological predispositions
and the environment
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